Some vegetables, such as cucumbers, bananas, peppers and potatoes, and meats such as beef, can last much longer when wrapped in plastic. This is due to the oxygen-free environment or micro-climate ...

Keen to see just how challenging it was to cut it out of my life completely, I decided to take on a week of living totally plastic-free. I gave myself just two rules; no purchases of single-use ...

It’s day one of my plastic-free food shopping challenge, and it already feels doomed. Why so negative? Stress. Driving back from the supermarket, I put my loose fruit and veg on the back seat.

Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called for supermarkets to set up plastic-free aisles, where food is sold in bulk. She’s also considering a tax on single-use plastics such as take-out ...